AOC Raleigh
adidas Outdoor Championships
June 18-19, 2004 at NC State U., Raleigh NC
presented by the National Scholastic Sports Foundation

a DyeStat featured meet

Gallery of Stars

the best performers of the meet

record setters | speedy guys | speedy girls | nail biting miles | thrilling 2 miles | golden relays | field events | two more |

all photos by John Dye

Record Setters

right, Latavia Thomas led West Catholic Philadelphia PA to national record in 1600m sprint medley.


Anchor battle between Bay Shore NY's Laura Cummings (9) and Eureka MO's Meredith Snow (6) ended with both teams beating Red Bank's USR set just last year here.

 
2 speedy guys

right, Lashawn Merritt,
doubles in the 200 and 400


Theodore Ginn anchors Glenville Cleveland's two relay wins and wins the open 400m in US#1 time.

 
2 speedy girls
Natasha Hastings, fastest 400m sprinter in the country,
wins her specialty in 52.89
Cleo Tyson wins 100m in 11.52 into a -3.2 headwind and is third in 200m.
 
nail biting miles

Both races came down to the last strides with big leads eaten up in the last 200 meters. Nicole Blood (left) caught Caitlin Chock, and 1 Gavin Coombs caught Victor Gras, with super soph Craig Miller right there.

 
thrilling 2 miles

left, Shadrack Kiptoo shakes
Josh McDougal in the last lap.

 

Sunni Olding defends her title over highly touted opposition..

 
golden relay squads

left, Krystin Lacy's Skyline Dallas relay teams came to Raleigh intent on improving on their 2-gold showing last year. They did, sweeping all three sprint relays.

Neil Atzinger came from behind Friday night to win the 4x800 for Spirit of Pre TC (Saline MI). Dustin Voss did the same Saturday night as "Pre" repeated in the DMR.

 
stars in the field

left, Erica McLain, on a mission to get the national TJ record, almost got it. Her 44-1.25 +0.0 leap was only 1 inch shy of the record. It restored her to US#1 this year over fellow 44-footer Brittany Daniels CA.

 

Scott Sellers had an ordinary (for him) jump of 7-2.25 to repeat as AOC high jump champion. He has done 7-5 this year outdoors and set the national indoor record of 7-5.25 at the Nike Indoor Championships in March.

 
2 more fast ones

Jason Richardson destroyed the 400m hurdle field with a runaway 49.79 win, US#3 all time.
Sarah Bowman bolted from the starting line and never looked back, emulating her Penn Relays mile victory. She blitzed the 800m field here in 2:04.94, fastest 800m time in the country in 8 years.

 

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